glen - > http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2021/05/because-i-am-bored.html > > Ranting is an art.
Art AND Sport! I have to say that Charlie's prescription for Musk's next tax-write-off and bone to throw to the astronomy community was stellar (pun recognized but not intended). I'd want to throw in that the RTGs (Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators) might be a good sink for otherwise awkward nuclear waste. I'm not up on the design of RTGs so maybe there is a reason that doesn't work and/or the volumes (mass) of RNs that could be "dumped" into deep space this way is negligible. Of course, it looks a lot like dumping one's sewage into the river or NYCs "garbage barges" of yore. I think the ratios are way off to imagine that the "fuel" itself becomes an ideal source of reaction-mass? I'm expecting Musk to send a Cybertruck-styled tow-truck into orbit to salvage space junk (stunt not unlike Roadster/Starman <https://www.whereisroadster.com/>). I'm not sure what if any components in abandoned satellites would be useful to cobble together some of the systems. I suppose that there is no Maxwell's Daemon game to be played to harvest some of their kinetic energy short of "throwing" some into reentry orbits which might be a fair trade-off... strip the "good stuff" and "hurl" the carcass into the arroyo (I mean upper atmosphere). Odd how a neo-Luddite such as myself can get drawn into these techno-utopian ideas. - Steve
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